Leatherut

Leatherut

@leatherut.bsky.social

Proud father of three🧑‍🦱🧑‍🦱👱‍♀️, citizen of two 🇬🇧🇺🇸and fantasy manager of one🏈! Cheers to all, feels like a palette cleanse right now!

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Replying to @mrindig0.bsky.social

Yeah, I figure it can be promoted as a choice. If you want to buy direct, fine; if you want to buy through a dealer, that's fine too. But a lot of people would buy direct, and that would cripple the nearly all-Republican donation network from dealers.

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In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home. (Published Dec. 2025)

propublica.orgTrump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records RevealThe Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...

Fireworks are lame, the same every year, scary as hell to pets and cause injury and death to some twats who choose to set them off. Oh and of course wild fires… ban the fucking things and grow up

“Unfortunately, the sheer depth of American exceptionalism is such that this country’s political, media and economic elites have a difficult time believing that anything can fundamentally change for the worse. But that, in fact, is what’s happening right now.” Sad but true

Helen Smith@wordsmith.bsky.social

Thank goodness for pieces like this. But we need thousands of them, and on every platform. The lack of moral courage among the Republican party is staggering. Does not one of them have a conscience? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

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I get the political calculation here. I'm just gonna point out that the predominance of research into European parties' efforts to outflank the far right like this has found that they merely legitimised the far right's political framing and led voters to opt for the "full fat" version.

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